Year 1762
Peshwa surrendered in Battle of Alegaon.
NOVEMBER 12
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12 November: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 12 November.
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Year 1781
Nagapatnam of South India was captured by the British troops. The British captured Nagapattinam.
Year 1847
British physician Sir James Young Simpson used chloroform for the first time as an anesthetic.
Year 1905
The people of Norway agreed to retain the monarchy instead of becoming a republic.
Year 1918
Austria became a republic.
Year 1927
Leon Trotsky was ousted from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in power.
Year 1929
First Maharastrian Governor Shripad Balwant Tambe was appointed as Governor of Nagpur.
Year 1930
First 'Round Table Conference' started in London. Only Muslim League party was present in the conference and there were no representative of Congress. 16 Indian Kings, 23 British representatives and other 56 Indians took part in this conference. The Muslim League consisted of Sir Agha Khan, Mohammed Ali Jauhar, Quaid-e-Azam, Sir Mohammed Shafi, Fazl-ul-Haq, Chaudhary Zafarullah and Ghulam Hussain.
Year 1936
Kerala temples opened to all Hindus.
Year 1939
Pratap Chandra Lal arrived at the training establishment at RAF Station, Risalpur. He then rose to the Air Chief Marcharl of Indian Air Force.
Year 1945
Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel discussed the political situation, in Pune, for ten and a half hours.
Year 1956
Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia joined the United Nations.
Year 1958
Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
Year 1969
Indira Gandhi, who was expelled from Congress for indiscipline during President elections, made a large split and formed her own Congress Party with Jagjivan Ram as President. The party is recognised as Congress (I).
Year 1984
One rupee currency coin was introduced.
Year 1984
Rajiv Gandhi elected Congress (I) President.
Year 1990
Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
Year 1990
Uttar Pradesh Government raises the reservation for Backward Classes in direct recruitment to State Services from 15 to 27 per cent.
Year 1996
Over 350 people die in mid-air collision in Bhiwani district, Haryana.
Year 1997
India elected to executive board of UNESCO.
Year 1997
Ramozi Yousef was convicted of bombing World Trade Center in 1993.
Year 1998
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced the introduction of the Person of Indian Origin (PIO) identity card scheme to facilitate visa-free travel for Indians residing abroad.
Year 2000
It was decided in India to celebrate November 12 as National Public Broadcasting Day.
Year 2003
The Shanghai Transrapid passenger train set a world record of 501 km / h.
Born 1817
Baháʼu’lláh, a Persian religious leader, and the founder of the Baháʼí Faith.
Born 1819
Sir Monier Monier-Williams, the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University, England.
Born 1866
Sun Yat-sen, the first president of the People’s Republic of China.
Born 1880
Pandurang Mahadev Bapat, popularly known as Senapati Bapat, was a figure in the Indian independence movement.
Born 1885
Firodia Kundanmal Shobhachand, politician and Gandhian, was born.
Born 1889
David Wallace, co-founder of Reader’s Digest.
Born 1896
Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali, an Indian ornithologist, and naturalist.
Born 1940
Amjad Khan, Indian actor & director (d. 1992)
Born 1946
Gopal Bedi (Ranjeet), an Indian film and television actor.
Born 1982
Anne Hathaway, an American actress.
Died 1916
Percival Lawrence Lowell, an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer.
Died 1946
Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian academic and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (b. 1861)
Died 1959
Keshavrao Marutirao Jedhe, great leader of Harijans and farmers, passed away.
Died 1965
Taher Saifuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (b. 1888)
Died 1969
Sahibzada Iskander Ali Mirza, a Pakistani general, civil servant, and the first President of Pakistan.
Died 2003
Jonathan Brandis, an American actor.
Died 2007
K. C. Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
Died 2014
Ravi Chopra, Indian director, and producer (b. 1946)
Died 2018
Stan Lee, an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer.